Chemical and Biochemical Engineering

  • Asefa, Tewodros (Teddy)

    • Title: Associate Professor
    • Department / Research Program: Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology & Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering
    • Email: tasefa@rci.rutgers.edu
    • Phone: 848-445-2970
    • Detailed Profile: https://chem.rutgers.edu/people/faculty-bio/116-asefa-teddy
    • Research Areas: Catalysis, nanomaterials synthesis, electrocatalysis, photocatalysis, water splitting and hydrogen production, fuel cells, solar PV.
    • Energy Research Focus: Development of novel, sustainable nanomaterials that allow the production of ‘clean’ and renewable energy (such as hydrogen) from sustainable sources (such as water). Development of new synthetic methods for various novel multifunctional nanomaterials for catalysis, electrocatalysis, and photocatalysis and investigation of their properties. Synthesis of novel nanostructured and nanoporous semiconductor thin films for solar cells.

  • Celik, Fuat E.

    • Title: Associate Professor, Graduate Program Director
    • Department / Research Program: Chemical and Biochemical Engineering
    • Email: fuat.celik@rutgers.edu
    • Phone: 848-445-5558
    • Detailed Profile: http://celik.rutgers.edu/
    • Research Areas: Catalysis, Photocatalysis, Biofuels, Carbon Capture
    • Energy Research Focus: We seek to understand how the microscopic structure and chemical composition of a catalyst relate to the macroscopically observable activity and selectivity for a desirable chemical reaction. We apply this to developing alternative and renewable fuels and chemicals.

  • Chundawat, Shishir P.S.

    • Title: Assistant Professor
    • Department / Research Program: Chemical and Biochemical Engineering
    • Email: shishir.chundawat@rutgers.edu
    • Phone: 848-445-3678
    • Detailed Profile: http://chundawat.rutgers.edu
    • Research Areas: Biochemical Engineering, Biomanufacturing, Biomass Process Engineering, Biopharmaceuticals, Bioseparations, Carbohydrate-Active enZymes (CAZymes), Cellulose & Carbohydrate Chemistry, Cellulosic Biofuels, Chemo-Enzymatic Synthesis, Glycans, Glycoconjugates, Glycoengineering, Glycobiology, Protein Adsorption, Protein Engineering, Single-Molecule Force Spectroscopy
    • Energy Research Focus: The Chundawat Research Group takes a carbohydrate or ‘glycan-centric’ approach to research problems focussed on renewable plant biomass based bioenergy & bioproducts production. His group therefore develops and applies protein and glycan engineering (or glycoengineering), advanced bioprocessing, and single-molecule biophysical techniques to address fundamental bioenergy specific research problems. He is particularly interested in understanding the fundamental biological processes involved in the biosynthesis of plant cell wall based carbohydrate polymers (e.g., cellulose) as well as engineering hydrolytic enzymes for more efficient bioconversion of carbohydrate polymers to value-added bioproducts.

  • Tomassone, Maria

    • Title: Associate Professor
    • Department / Research Program: Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering
    • Email: silvina@soe.rutgers.edu
    • Phone: 848-445-2972, 908-208-6796
    • Detailed Profile: http://cbe.rutgers.edu/fac/m-silvina-tomassone
    • Research Areas: Catalysis Manufacturing- Impregnation – Calcination, Energy Storage, Lithium Ion Batteries, Graphene Oxide Anodes for Lithium Ion Batteries
    • Energy Research Focus: Catalysis - Energy storage – Catalysis Manufacturing Nanoparticle production for Energy and Catalysis applications. Computational Modeling of Nanoparticle (Molecular Dynamics) Discrete element Method simulations of Granular flow

  • Tsilomelekis, George

    • Title: Assistant Professor
    • Department / Research Program: Chemical and Biochemical Engineering
    • Email: g.tsilo@rutgers.edu
    • Phone: 848-445-5809
    • Detailed Profile: http://www.tsilomelekis.com/
    • Research Areas: In situ / Operando vibrational spectroscopy, Raman, IR, catalysis, shale gas, biomass, biofuels, olefins, alkanes
    • Energy Research Focus: Structure-reactivity relationships as they pertain to complex catalytic reactions, solvent effects in biomass processing, catalysis by design